“Killing in the Name” by Rage has been given the North Korean treatment
“Killing in the Name” is one of the fiercest anthems of the 90s. Who would have thought that it would become a favourite of the North Korean Military Chorus? (Via
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Fun with bloodthirsty ruthless dictators: North Korea’s video summarizing the Singapore Summit
Not that long ago, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un were on a path to nuclear war. Now they’re apparently BFFs. Since the summit wrapped up, we’ve seen endless analysis of
Read MoreAnd now, a musical break from North Korea
Funny how Donald Trump likes to cozy up to authoritarian leaders and dictators while simultaneously insulting America’s allies and friends. Now that he and Kim Jong-Un are in Singapore, here’s
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This Laibach concert film could be the weirdest thing to come out of North Korea
Laibach, the heavy industrial act from Slovenia (est. 1980), was weird to begin with. But when they announced they were going to play a couple of gigs in North Korea,
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Random Music News for Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Now that Blue Monday is behind us, we can concentrate on getting through the second half of what’s been (generally) a brutal month. Here’s your music news for January 16,
Read MoreNorth Korean Defector Claims to have Witnessed 11 Teenage Musicians Executed with Anti-Aircraft Guns
Hee Yeon Lim is a 26-year-old defector from North Korea. She claims to have witnessed a horrific mass execution of eleven teenage musicians who were convicted of making porn. What
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Random Music News for Thursday, September 22, 2016
And just like that, it’s autumn. Here’s some music news. Interesting: BBC Radio 1 wants to become “the Netflix of music radio.” Today the BBC launches a Canadian bureau and
Read MorePropaganda Fun! Life in North Korea Mixed with Hall and Oates
North Korea is a horrible little country where a brutal paranoid dictator funnels the nation’s scarce resources into military might while his people starve. Don’t like the regime? Too bad. Say
Read MoreNorth Korea Musical Drama Over Kim Jong-Un’s Sister and the Guitarist Security Lapse
Oh, North Korea. You’re just a nutty, horrible place. We all hate performance reviews, but be thankful that you don’t live north of the 38th parallel. Unless your name is
Read MoreDid K-Pop Just Help the World Avoid Nuclear War on the Korean Peninsula?
The strip of no-man’s land along the 38th parallel on the Korean peninsula is an extremely weird and dangerous place. A technical state of war still exists between the two
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The First Western Rock Band to Perform in North Korea Will Be…Laibach?
Laibach dropped into my consciousness in the years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the USSR. I’d done a radio special called “Modern Rock in
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